Once upon a time, not too long ago, India had rejected a $100 computer designed by MIT saying that it was still too expensive for the masses. Last week, a new cheap table computer was revealed that is being projected as the answer to the problem of providing a computer to every child. This is [...]

A grad student from the University of Washington, USA, as developed something rather interesting using a pico projector, a depth perceptive camera and an Intel-based computer. This is an interactive kitchen counter-top that recognizes objects placed on it and acts accordingly. It will give you recipes and will also tell you about the stuff that [...]

After the iPhone launch of the Sky+ app, the Android users of the UK can get their hands on the app as well. The popular broadcaster has finally announced the launch of their Android app, long after the iPhone app moved into place. In addition to this piece of news, Sky also announced that they [...]

Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, has recently received a solar installation of 7,00 panels. This massive array of panels that convert sunlight to electricity is saving the university electricity costs to the tune of $200,000 per year. In doing this, the university has become the largest US college solar experiment, setting precedent for others [...]

A little gem from the System76 has just been released as the second generation Starling netbook. As far as specs go, System76 keeps on with the norm. They have the Atom, the 10″ screen size and the almost typical memory and storage size. However, they do have something that sets them apart. They offer their [...]

As anybody who is interested can clearly see, today finds the Kindle sold out!  For some, this may be annoying since it means that you have to wait on your new eReader.  For those who’ve been following the news these last few months, however, this is simply a reinforcement of the good news we’ve been [...]

Barnes & Noble(NYSE:BKS) has taken a page out of Amazon’s(NASDAQ:AMZN) book again recently by rebranding their eReader applications under the nook.  This comes at the same time as, and is therefore well illustrated by, the much anticipated release of the nook software for the Android operating system, which is now available in the Apps store [...]

Barnes & Noble have finally brought out the Nook app for Android users after releasing it first on the iPhone platform. There are also talks of an update coming for the iPhone and the iPad and the Nook coming to other platforms as well. Interesting thing to note here is the fact that B&N has [...]

Here’s news of another solar powered flight, only this time it is unmanned and the flight time is a world-record-setting two weeks! Meet The Zephyr solar plane. This one shattered the previous solar flight record of being airborne by a margin of about 250 hours. It stayed aloft for two whole weeks, through day and [...]

This week we have seen a new standard set for eSook sales, specifically those for Amazon’s(NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle.  Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, which we recently mentioned in a review of the Kindle Editions, has now sold over One Million copies for the Kindle alone.  This comes just weeks after James Patterson’s amazing announcement that he had [...]